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Last night on a thread at Steve Sailer’s blog dealing with Henry Louis Gates I wrote the following anonymous message.
I can’t get over how much he looks like Paul Gottfired!
No one else sees it?
I didn’t want to put my name on it because I thought Gottfried might be offended. I just wanted to [...]
Human Universals
By Daniel E. Brown
220 pp. Temple University Press 1991
Written in 1991, Human Universals made the case for what was a minority position in anthropology: that there is a fundamental human nature that is reflected in all cultures. While one of the focuses of this blog is biological differences between populations, there [...]
I went to Home Depot the other day for some lightbulbs. There were fat people with tattoos and American flags everywhere. It reminded me of when I drive cross country and stop in Nebraska or Iowa. I vividly remember a gas station station I stopped at last time. It seemed as if everything had “Harley [...]
Cambodia has been isolating AIDS patients from the rest of society. “Human rights” activists think it’s too much to ask sufferers of the disease to go through the trouble of not infecting the rest of us.
The Cambodian government set up the community on a site known as Tuol Sambo, on the outskirts of [...]
The website Foreign Policy has an article up on Iraqi militia leader Moqtada Al-Sadr. To be a respected religious man among Shiite Muslims you need to study to become something called an ayatollah. Wanting to position himself for power in the new Iraq, the young Al-Sadr bowed out of Iraqi politics and is currently completing [...]
In the June 2000 issue of Harper’s Tom Wolfe’s article In the Land of Rococo Marxists: Why no one is celebrating the second American century was published. The US was at that time the most successful country in the history of the world and unlike today there didn’t seem to be any collapse in sight.
Where [...]
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